Ben Franklin is first credited with understanding electricity.
Thomas Edison is credited with building the first electric light bulb. Benjamin Franklin is also famous for his experiments involving electricity.
Nobody invented electricity. It is a natural phenomenon that was first described by the first person who witnessed lightning. Various people have been credited with "discovering" it but A. Lincoln is not on that list.
Ben Franklin is credited as being the first known person to live through finding this out.
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Thales of Miletus is credited with being one of the first to observe the properties of static electricity. However, the term "electricity" itself was coined later by William Gilbert in the 16th century.
Faraday
Albert Einstein was no narnessing electric. It was understanding the relationship of Energy to matter.
Humphry Davy who was an English Scientist is the person who is credited with the invention of the first electric bulb. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery.
William Harvey
The Minoans are credited as Europe's first great civilization.
Nikola Tesla made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity, including the development of alternating current (AC) power systems, the invention of the Tesla coil for wireless energy transfer, and pioneering work in wireless communication and radio technology. He also contributed to the development of electrical transmission systems and various other innovations that have had a lasting impact on modern electrical engineering.
William Gilbert studied magnetism and electricity and he is credited as one of the originators of the term "electricity".